The 13 DAYS OF KIRBY 100 Index

A salute to the King — featuring Alex Ross, Walt Simonson, Mike Allred, Joe Sinnott and many, many others!

DC Comics, with a raft of new series and one-shots, and Marvel Comics, with more than a dozen reprints and special variant covers, have each been saluting Jack Kirby’s centennial in different ways this year. IDW, another favorite publisher of ours, has been putting out even more Kirby Artist’s Editions. (Check out the amazing new Fantastic Four edition by clicking here. Miss it not!)

They’re not alone. Artists all over social media have been at it as well, and there are plans for commemorations come 8/28, the actual 100th anniversary of Kirby’s birth.

We’re about to join the bombastic fray with 13 DAYS OF KIRBY 100, in coordination with TwoMorrows Publishing, which is releasing an extraordinary book edited by Jon B. Cooke and John Morrow that features essays and artistic contributions from 100 of the comics industry’s greatest creators, plus a detailed timeline of Kirby’s career:

Just check out the table of contents:

And dig some of these sample pages:

Amazing.

Now, 13 of those essays will be published here daily starting Wednesday 8/16, culminating in the anniversary itself. (Plus, we have some surprises up our sleeve, too.)

What kind of names are we talking about? How about Alex Ross, Walt Simonson, Mike Allred and Kelley Jones. That not enough? How about Joe Sinnott, Dave Gibbons, John Byrne and Jerry Ordway? And many more — including art by Kirby and those paying tribute to his legacy.

Now bookmark this post because we’ll be adding links every day throughout the 13 DAYS OF KIRBY 100. The book itself ships 8/28 and will be available in stores — or you can order it now from TwoMorrows. Now matter how you get it, get it.